Abstract:

In recent years, business scandals occur frequently, which cause researchers concern on the issues of leader integrity in the academic area, but research on the structure, measurement, antecedents and consequences of leader integrity is still scarce. In this study, we explore the dimensions of leader integrity and develop a scale of leader integrity with a common management program of scale development in Chinese organizational context. Then, we explore the antecedents and consequences of leader integrity by collecting supervisor-subordinate paried data and using longitudinal study design. There are three sub-studies in this research:(1) research on structure and measurement of leader integrity in Chinese organizational context; (2) the antecedents of leader integrity: a cross-level longitudinal research based on individual traits and social learning perspectives; (3) consequences of leader integrity: a longitudinal study. This research is significant in: (1) clarifying the dimensions of leader integrity, recognizing and measuring the leader integrity in Chinese organizational context; (2) confirming what kind of leader will show integrity behavior, and whether the cascading effect of senior leader integrity to low-level leader integrity exists; (3) revealing the relationship among leader integrity and personal reputation, personal power and career development of leader, and the relationship among leader integrity and trust in supervisor, job performance and voice behavior of employee.

Key words: leader integrity, personality traits, cascading effect, influencing effect, mediating mechanism